Diving into the Wreckage: Vive La Commune w/ C. Derick Varn & Henry Wallis
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Sean and Varn are joined (eventually) by Henry Wallis, official France correspondent of This Wreckage and Varn Vlog, to talk about upcoming elections on the commune level and France Unbowed's plan to grow from municipal power to a mass political movement.
Beforehand we had a brief discussion of the economic fallout from the Iran war which has subsequently went into a tentative two-week ceasefire.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the public facing part of diving into the wreckage. |
| 0:16.9 | Our private fashion part will be completely separate and not related this time. |
| 0:27.6 | So this is a completely free for everybody episode that will be coming out in the next, within a week and a half of us recording it because we're talking about very recent political events in France. |
| 0:35.6 | In France. |
| 0:36.6 | Do we have our French correspondent on the line? I feel like we must have our French in France. In France. |
| 0:40.2 | Do we have our French correspondent on the line? |
| 0:41.9 | I feel like we must have our French correspondent. |
| 0:44.8 | There he is. |
| 0:46.2 | There's that ha, ha. |
| 0:48.7 | How's it going, Henry Wallace? |
| 0:50.4 | Very good. |
| 0:52.7 | How are you all today or this evening or whatever? |
| 1:17.9 | Very good. I was just speaking with someone today and they said about you. They said, he has such a nice podcasting voice. Oh, thank you. That's very kind. Don't thank me. Thank them. I think anonymous. But it is true. I think you do have a really nice podcasting voice. Thanks for coming back with us. We're going to talk about your adopted homeland, right? We're going to talk about. Oh, yeah. Unbowed events over there in France. |
| 1:27.8 | And I also have a book that I will be referencing for a new municipalism, communes and the heart of the Citizens Revolution. |
| 1:28.7 | Okay. |
| 1:29.6 | All right. |
| 1:31.3 | Who's the book by? |
| 1:34.4 | The book is by the Institute of Boise, |
| 1:36.3 | which is the Boise Institute, |
| 1:37.6 | the Unboud Think Tank, |
| 1:40.6 | and it is co-written by Cecil Gentrach, |
| 1:43.0 | Manuel Menal, Alain Poplar, |
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